well I haven't played starlancer, so I don't know much about all that pre-freelancer stuff.
I saw starlancer in the local used bookstore.
might see if it's still there. I looked it up on wiki and it didn't look taht great. though I am interested in leaerning about all that pre-FL stuff.
On the topic of the ships, I like them, they're really cool. I think I've seen them somewhere... were they in the opening movie?